The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.